Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-03-02

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loon-keepers. One is a man of God, the
other man of beer. QIaughter.) They
voted the same tickets once in the old
parties, but they can't do SO now. The
preacher wants prohibition plan k in the
platform and says times have changed.
The saloon-keeper objects and says the
preacher has changed, and he has the
logic of the argument, the minister has to
get out Of the old party and into the new
one. There is nothing between the old
parties now but the bitterness growing
out ofa struggle that ought to have been
buried long ago. We used to could tell
the difference between them by smelling
their breath. Naughter.) We can't tell
any more. Naughter.) Like Charley
who was so far in the catechism as 'origi-
nal SIM and Tom, who was past redemp-
tion,' the Democratic party is still in orig
inal sin, while the Republican party is
past redemption. Iaughter.)
"At the door of the Christian people
rests the responsibility. AS long as you
see the man of God and the man of beer
voting the same ticket we will have this
on us. No wonder Ingersoll has his faith
shaken in Christianity as he looks down the
line On election day. God help me to in
ject some religion into politics. Show me
a man who is corrupt in politics and [
will show you one who has no religion.
If the Christian people were as united
against the saloon as the saloon is against
Christianity, the saloon would not last "a
months"
PERsoNALITIEs.-Ke clear OF per-
sonalitieS in general conversation. Talk
of things, objects, thoughts. The small
est minds occupy themselves with per-
sonaIities. Personalities must sometimes
be talked, because we have to learn and
find out mems characteristics for legIti-
mate objects; but it is to be with confiden.
tial reasons. DO not heedlessly report i'll
compelled to. say, II do not think Boun-
Ger true and honest man, but when
there is no need to express an opinion,
let poor Bouncer swagger away. Others
will take his measure, no doubt, and save
you the trouble of analyzing him and in
structing them. And as far as possible
dwell on the good side of human beings.
There are family boards where constant
process of depreciating, assigning motives
and cutting up of character goes forward.
They are moi pleasant places. One who
is healthy does not wish to dine at a dis
secting table. There is evil enough in
man, God knows but it is not the mission
of every young man or woman to detail
and report it all. Keep the atmosphere
as pure as possible, and fragrant with
gentleness and charity.-JoAn Hall, ID. ID.
A CUBIC MILE.-The solid earth oc-
cupies space equal to 1862 cubic miles.
Few people have any conception of the
immensity of the space in single mile.
Professor Bernstein, an eminent German
savant, illustrates it in striking way.
Imagine, he says, box one mile each
way-long wide and deep-and let us try
to fill it. We will take all the great cities
of Europe. London, Paris, Berlin, Vien-
ma, St. Petersburg, Constantinople and
the rest; the bottom is scarcely covered.
We take up everything else that human
hands have built in Europe, Asia, Afri-
ca, America, Australia and all the ships
floating on sea; throw it all in and the
box is scarcely half full. Then we will
lay in the people of the globe. One row
will require 12,900, and 1000 rows make
one layer of $4,000, ,000-just enough for
North America. Put between each layer
a bed of straw and leaves thirty feet thick
(which will take all the straw and leaves
in the world) we will proceed to pack in
the balance of mankind-14, 900, ,000, 900 in
all-in about thirty layers. The box is
only half full. Dump in all animal crea-
ton, and there still will be a great amount
of space left.-Penman's ART Journal.
ATIQUITY OF GINGERBREAD.-It will
surprise houskeepers to learn that our
homely everyday luxury-gingerbread
has been used since the fourteenth GEN.
tury. 1t was made then and sold in
Paris-so Montell affirms in his "Histoirie
des Francais." 1t was then prepared with
rye meal, made into dough, and other
spices, with sugar or honey, were knead-
ed into it. 1t was introduced into Eng
gland by the court of Henry w for their
festivals, and soon brought into general
use. Since then it has retained its p0pu-
larity and contributed much to the pleas
ures and enjoyments Of young and old.
A great change, of course, was after
while made in its composition, and par
ticularly after it was introduced in this
country. Honey being more expensive
than molasses, was less used, and the dark
er color hidden under some other ingre-
dent or gilded. "To take the gift off the
gingerbread" was common proverb, and
in the old country booths, glittering with
their rude devices in gingerbread, are
still seen in many country towns to this
day.
GRACEs OF OLD AGE.-A face which
has for years been under the controlling
and shaping influence of good feeling and
noble thoughts, has obtained thereby
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smith must have thought something of
this sort when he pithily wrote, in his in
imitable "Vicar Of Wakefield" that
it comes about that the human counte-
nance is as magician's glass, in which is
seen the very image of the actions eman-
ating from the volitions of the mind and
heart. 1t is, indeed, as Spenser appropri
ately put the thought in his "Hymne in
Honour of Beutie," when he says:
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For soule is forme, and doth the bodio make.
And it is, indeed, as the poet Young
declared
The body charms, because the soul is seen.
Consequently beauty is not confined to
youthfulness; neither is it the exclusive
monopoly of those who are upon the hith-
er side of middle age. There is slow,
but steadily growing beauty which can
only come to maturity in old age.-Nea0
York Home Journal.
DISADVANTAGES OF FLEsH-It is gen.
orally supposed that fat people have much
more blood than others. Or the contra
ry, they have less. The blood they have,
moreover, is really poor, while the fat
fills the space which is required even for